BASKETBALL
BORN: November 6, 1861 in Canada.
DIED: November 28, 1939 at the age of 78 in Kansas.
NATIONALITY: Canadian.
OCCUPATION:PE Professor and coach
FAMILY: 2 wives and 5 children.
Basketball is a sport played by two teams of five players on a rectangular court. The idea is to shoot one ball trough a hoop to a backboard at each end.Basketball was originaly played with a soccer ball. The first balls made specifically for basketball were brown. In the late 1950s Tony Hinkle introduced the orange ball.In early December 1891 James Naismith ,a physical professor invented the basketball .He was born in Canada and he attended McGill in Montreal. James was the oldest child of Margaret and Naismith, two Scottish immigrants.James married Maude Evelyn in Springfield, USA. They have 5 children. James moved on to work at the YMCA school. After chaining the peach baskets for open hoop nets, James Naismith soon wrote thirteen official rules of the game. Naismith suffered a major brain hemorrhage on November 19th the same year and died nine days later in his home.
